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Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (the "Company")
Scrip Alternative to an Interim Dividend – Scrip Reference Price
This announcement should be read in conjunction with the announcement by the Company on May 17
2012 of a proposed interim cash dividend (the “Interim Dividend”) of 7.00 pence per ordinary share in
the Company ("Ordinary Share") in respect of the Company's interim financial results for the six
months ended March 31 2012 (the "Interim Results Announcement"), and the accompanying
announcement of the offer of a scrip alternative to the Interim Dividend (the "Scrip Alternative
Announcement"). Under the Interim Results announcement, it was announced that the directors had
resolved to offer a scrip dividend alternative to the Interim Dividend (the Scrip Dividend Alternative”),
under the scheme approved by shareholders on January 28 2009.
The Company announces that the scrip reference price (by reference to which new ordinary shares
will be issued to those shareholders who elect to receive shares instead of cash in respect of
the Interim Dividend) is 742.90 pence (being the average of the middle market quotations of an
Ordinary Share as derived from the Daily Official List for the fifteen successive dealing days
commencing with May 23 2012 (being the date on which Ordinary Shares were first quoted "exdividend" in respect of the Interim Dividend) and ending on June 14 2012). Shareholders entitled to
receive the Interim Dividend and holding at least 107 Ordinary Shares or more may elect to receive,
for every 106.13 Ordinary Shares (rounded up to the nearest Ordinary Share) registered in their
names at the close of business on May 25 2012, one new Ordinary Share credited as fully paid (a
"New Ordinary Share") instead of the Interim Dividend. The New Ordinary Shares will, when issued,
rank pari passu in all respects with existing Ordinary Shares, including the right to receive all dividends
declared after the date of issue. All elections for the Scrip Dividend Alternative will be subject to
the terms of the scrip dividend scheme, as set out in the Scrip Alternative Announcement referred to
above.
As at the record date there were 123,470,813 Ordinary Shares in issue. If none of the New Ordinary
Shares being offered were to be taken up, a total cash dividend of £8,642,957 would be paid. If all
shareholders elected to receive New Ordinary Shares in respect of their holdings, 1,163,392 New
Ordinary Shares would be issued, representing an increase of 1 per cent in the Company's current
issued ordinary share capital.
On the basis that no elections to take up the Scrip Alternative are received, the total applicable tax
credit would be £960,329.
If the Share Price Falls
For the protection of shareholders, an election to take up the Scrip Alternative will automatically
become void if, on June 28 2012 (the last date for receipt of Mandate Forms) the middle market price
for an Ordinary Share, as derived from the Daily Official List, is 631.47 pence or less, being 15 per
cent. or more below the price on which the entitlement to New Ordinary Shares has been calculated. If
the Ordinary Share price should fall to that level after June 28 2012, shareholders elections will remain
in force. If an election to take up the Scrip Alternative automatically becomes void pursuant to this
provision, Mandate Forms will remain in force in respect of future Relevant Dividends.
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For further information, please contact:
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Colin Jones, Company Secretary: +44 20 7779 8845; [email protected]
Financial Dynamics
Charles Palmer: +44 20 7269 7180; [email protected]